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Scandinavian Scientists Designing Robotic Snakes

Posted by samzenpus on from the on-a-robot-plane dept.

Cowards Anonymous writes "The Sintef Group, a research company based in Trondheim, Norway, announced that it's designing a robot based on snakes. The 1.5-meter long robots, which are made of aluminum, are being designed to inspect and clean complicated industrial pipe systems that are typically narrow and inaccessible to humans. The intelligent robots have multiple joints to enable them to twist vertically and climb up through pipe systems to locate leaks in water systems, inspect oil and gas pipelines and clean ventilation systems."

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  1. Re:snakes eat rats by hax0r_this · · Score: 0, Troll

    Anybody remember that song from like preschool, "I know an old lady who swallowed a fly?". If you go making the snake swallow rats, next you'll have to make robotic cats.

  2. Re:Scandinavian scientists by tsarkon · · Score: -1, Troll

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